pork
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Etymology
From Middle English pork, porc, via Anglo-Norman, from Old French porc (“swine, hog, pig; pork”), from Latin porcus (“domestic hog, pig”).
Cognate with Old English fearh (“piglet”). Doublet of farrow. Compare also other West Germanic words for pigs: Ferkel, Ferke, and varken.
Used in English since the 14th century, and as a term of abuse since the 17th century.
US politics sense is related to pork barrel. The verb is from the black American form of poke.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /pɔːk/
- (General American) IPA(key): /poɹk/
- (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA(key): /po(ː)ɹk/[1]
- (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA(key): /poək/
Audio (US): (file) Audio (UK): (file) - Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)k
Noun
pork (countable and uncountable, plural porks)
- (chiefly uncountable) The meat of a pig.
- Synonyms: pigflesh, pigmeat, swineflesh, swinemeat, the other white meat
- The cafeteria serves pork on Tuesdays.
- (US politics, slang, derogatory) Funding proposed or requested by a member of Congress for special interests or their constituency as opposed to the good of the country as a whole.
- (MLE, slang, collective) law enforcement, those who side with criminal prosecution
- Synonyms: bacon, pigs, swine; see also Thesaurus:police
- Meronym: porky (“one member of law enforcement, policeman”)
Derived terms
- barbecued pork
- barbecue pork
- cut of pork
- Dongpo pork
- double-cooked pork
- flossy pork
- Huizeng pork
- I don't eat pork
- jellied pork
- long pork
- lychee pork
- minced pork
- minced pork rice
- moo shi pork
- mu shu pork
- mu xu pork
- National Pork Board
- organic pork
- partially defatted pork fatty tissue
- Peking pork
- pickled pork
- piece of pork
- pig upon pork
- pork and beans
- pork bacon
- pork ball
- pork-barrel
- pork barrel
- pork barrelling
- pork-barrelling
- pork-based
- pork belly
- pork blood
- pork blood soup
- pork bouillon
- porkbuster
- pork butcher
- pork butt
- pork cheek
- pork cheese
- pork chop
- pork chop island
- pork consumption
- pork-containing
- pork cutlet
- pork cycle
- pork dripping
- pork ear
- pork-eater
- pork-eating
- porker
- pork escalope
- pork fat
- pork fillet
- porkfish
- pork floss
- pork goulash
- pork hedgehog
- pork hock
- porking
- pork insulin
- pork jelly
- pork jowl
- pork kebab
- pork kidney
- pork knocker
- pork-knocker
- pork knuckle
- pork liver
- pork loin
- pork meat
- pork meatball
- pork neck
- pork out
- pork pie
- pork pie hat
- pork producer
- pork rib
- pork ribs
- pork rind
- pork roast
- pork roll
- pork schnitzel
- pork scratching
- pork scratchings
- pork shoulder
- pork slab
- Pork Soda
- pork steak
- pork store
- pork strips
- pork sung
- pork sword
- pork tapeworm
- pork tenderloin
- pork tenderloin sandwich
- Pork Tornado
- pork up
- pork Wellington
- porky
- Porky Pig
- pork–cat syndrome
- pulled pork
- red braised pork belly
- roast pork
- salt pork
- Scottish pork taboo
- sea pork
- sliced pork
- smoked pork
- spring of pork
- steam minced pork
- sweet and sour pork
- twice-cooked pork
- yuxiang shredded pork
Related terms
Descendants
- → Japanese: ポーク (pōku)
Translations
meat of a pig
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See also
Verb
pork (third-person singular simple present porks, present participle porking, simple past and past participle porked)
- (transitive, slang, vulgar, usually of a male) To have sex with (someone).
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:copulate with
- 1978, Harold Ramis, Douglas Kenney, Chris Miller, Animal House (motion picture), spoken by Boon (Peter Riegert), Universal Pictures:
- Marlene! Don't tell me you're gonna pork Marlene Desmond!
References
- “pork”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
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